glitterin: Towards Replacing the Role of Lorenz-Mie Theory in Astronomy Using Neural Networks Trained on Light Scattering of Irregularly Shaped Grains

Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Alycia J. Weinberger, Evgenij Zubko +2

Light scattering by dust particles is often modeled assuming the dust is spherical for numerical simplicity and speed. However, real dust particles have highly irregular morphologi…